The AES Corp. operates as a power generation and utility company. It operates through the Generation and Utilities segments. The Generation segment refers to the utilization of fuels and technologies to generate electricity such as coals, gas, hydro, wind, solar and biomass. The Utilities segment comprises the transmission, distribution, and in certain circumstances, generate power. It also operates through the following business units: United States; Chile, Colombia, and Argentina; Brazil; Mexico, Central America and

Caribbean; Europe, and Asia. The company was founded by Dennis W. Bakke and Roger W. Sant in 1981 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

Two years ago, I warned investors to avoid “kissing cousins” Tesla Motors and SolarCity. My reasoning was simple: Though at the time it was an industry leader in the rooftop solar panel sector, SolarCity had demonstrated a perverse reverse economics of scale in its business model.

A centralized power source can create issues if it unexpectedly goes offline. When a glitch led the Montclair State University’s microgrid to believe that an outage had occurred, it kicked in and isolated the University from the main grid and seamlessly powered the entire campus for nine hours.

Think of it as the luxe end of the van life movement, a dramatic looking piece of sculpture on wheels, albeit one that will comfortably house you on a remote beach in British Columbia, next to a trout stream in Montana or at the next Burning Man.

There are now more than 500 different botanical compounds used to flavor gin. No one really knows for sure, so the actual number is probably much higher. Black Gin, Distiller’s Cut, a German gin, utilizes 74 different botanicals.

An executive order banning Venezuela’s petro cryptocurrency, signed by U.S. President Donald Trump, could be voted into law as soon as Monday, setting a potentially dangerous precedent for other cryptocurrencies.